Thank you NetGalley, Tantor Audio and Author for this advanced ebook copy!

The Night She Disappeared by Kevin was a wonderful listen. I was given the chance to listen to the audio book and let me say its great!
This wild read had so many twist and amazing surprises. I was honestly hooked to this narrator like hooked, line, sinker. Amazing!
This fast-paced thriller will have you staying up late to finish it because its all you're going to be able to think about!

Again thank you for the amazing opportunity to read and review this outstanding novel!
I will post to my Goodreads, bookstagram and Facebook accounts closer to pub date!

Anna Malone comes wakes up after a night of too much alcohol and now has too many wholes in her memory. The TV reporter vaguely remembers verbally accosting her married lover, Ross and his wife, Courtney, who was clueless about the affair, at a restaurant the night before.. Now Courtney has disappeared and both Ross and Anna are prime suspects. But did Courtney really meet with foul play? Anna believes that the woman has puled some kind of Gone, Girl stunt and indeed may be behind a series of disturbing events in Amma’s life. This story has some serious twists and turns, all deftly handled by Tait

This grabbed me and didn’t let go. This is my first Kevin O’Brien book, and I’m impressed. I love his writing style. His characters felt real and I even had a degree of sympathy for the less than decent characters. Except for Courtney. Yes, she was the wife getting cheated on, but I despised her. O’Brien writes compelling characters. I was invested in MC Anna and was rooting for her, despite the fact that she was having an affair with a married man. I liked her even though Anna might’ve done a bad, bad thing. I suspected all the main players at different points. I even suspected some of the minor characters.

I remember thinking late in the book that there was no way things could end in a way that I’d be pleased with. I’m so glad to be wrong. I had some minor quibbles about a certain character being able to manipulate so many different people, let alone have access to such a variety of skilled persons. But then I thought about how much I enjoyed it all and decided to round my 4.5 stars up to the rare 5 star. A short epilogue had me questioning my feels, but was actually quite perfect. I’m very hard to please when it comes to epilogues.
Highly recommended.

Content: mention of sex, but no actual sex scenes. A sprinkling of F-bombs, but not to excess. Descriptions of murder scenes, but it didn’t feel very graphic to me. I mean, if you’re super sensitive to dead bodies and a little throat slashing, this probably isn’t your genre anyway.

I was lucky enough to receive an audiobook copy of this one from NetGalley. I love when the voice of the narrator fits the story. That’s definitely the case with this one. It’s a thriller - and the voice of the narrator ensures that you know it.

The story line is pretty obvious from the title - there was a night and a female disappeared. The female in this case is a well known deaf author. The night was the night before the debut of a news story on her upcoming book release. There’s a ton of drama surrounding that - including the fact that the journalist writing her story has been having an affair with her husband. The night in question involved a lot of alcohol - which is pretty common when people disappear.

No one knows where she is, her cell phone is not working and she hasn’t contacted anyone. Does she know about the affair? There are so many questions very early in the book. In my opinion this made it interesting.

It follows the journalist and everyone else in the community while rumors fly, the media gets involved and everything goes crazy.

Is she dead? If she is, who killed her? The big question many in the community are asking is why haven’t the husband and his mistress been arrested?

There are excerpts with the perpetrator included in the book and honestly that’s one of my favorite things in books like this. It’s almost like a look into the head of the bad guy. So interesting.

I enjoyed the unfolding of this story. Was it predictable? Sure, but when you read as many thrillers as I do, they generally are. The journey to the ending was enjoyable and that’s what matters. I do feel like it was longer than it needed to be. I didn’t dislike all the additional information, and nothing seemed to be completely unnecessary but at the same time it was a long listen. Interesting, but long.

Anna is seeing a married man, Russ, who is married to Courtney and Courtney has disappeared. What I expected to be another domestic thriller didn’t take into effect that Kevin O’Brien was the author. Notably writing the unexpected, he provides a full cast of characters that any one of them could have been behind Courtney’s disappearance. Is Courtney hiding for purposes of her own or could she really be dead.
Thank you Kevin O’Brien for an unexpected, twisted ending and Netgalley and Publisher Tantoor Audio for an early audio copy of this book. The comments and review are my honest opinion.

Wow. I haven’t read a book with so many twists and turns in a while. Real. A big surprise for me because I haven’t read Kevin O’Brien’s books so far. This will change, I will definitely read more. Well, this time I got the audio on Netgalley.com and Tantor audio for a copy in honest review. Thank you.

This book / audio was a nightmare for many people in the book. TV reporter Anna Malone is woke up after a night drinking and said her lover’s wife is missing. She dated Russ for 18 months and they were preety close, but soon after Courtney Knoll's disappearance he changed his attitude towards her. And who is the main suspect in the story? It's not hard to guess. But that's not all. There are few other people who would be interested to harm others in this story. A very dynamic book. Although it was quite long it sounded great.